Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

Happy May Day, y’all

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

JD Vance destroyed the college football national championship trophy and killed the pope in the same week.

There is more evidence behind the claim "JD Vance killed the pope" than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

The 50501 organizers in LA had a “post protest party”… They used a picture of ice goons abducting Romaysa in the background of their party flyer - when the raised funds or the protest itself had nothing to with ICE abducting pro-Palestine students. this is disgusting.

Video shows activists unveiling a massive banner with the names of Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, during a protest in Washington DC.

Notice how militarized police are nowhere to be found when Black people stay home?

Reps. Jayapal, Raskin and Scanlon are circulating the following letter about Mahmoud Khalil (leaked to me) among congressional colleagues, source says. Draft unambiguously condemns the arrest, saying it's based on an "obsolete Cold War-era" law

Bluesky moderators deleted the AI protest video @marisakabas.bsky.social obtained of Trump sucking Musk's toes broadcast inside HUD office, called it 'non-consensual explicit material' www.404media.co/bluesky-dele...

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

Lmao

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

🗣️WATCH: “Pull your head up. We got this. We are in this together.” @tequilamjohnson.bsky.social gets a standing ovation in rural Tennessee as she points to the resilience of Black folks throughout history to say Trump is not a hurdle that 🇺🇸 can’t overcome.

Severance is relatable to my household bc our brains are severed between the first and second floors of the house thus once I walk upstairs it is medically impossible for me to remember why

The antipathy I feel toward the clean-up robot bumbling around Giant suggests I will not be one of the activists fighting for android liberation in the coming machine wars

Having one of those perfect revisitation moments where I read Gibson’s “The Winter Market” in high school and was so nonplussed, but just read it again and am now like ok best story of all time?

Parenting question, my impressionable young algorithm is giving me like 50% pokemon fanart and corgi photos. How do I guide her away from this and toward a milieu of commie shitposting and gay filth?

Ursula LeGuin accomplished a lot of things but I don't think she was like racking up a bodycount

wow the number of Estraven/Genly Ai (EstraGen, obvs) fics on AO3 is disgracefully low, come on people

You know when you finish The Left Hand of Darkness and you're like, that was transformative and all but it could have used 500% more fucking

new here and under the impression that Bluesky rhymes with brewski

Just finished my third semester teaching at Penn! Seems like a great day to say that I’m so proud of all my Penn students and alums and the great things they accomplish out in the world.